Slaughter of the innocents

Slaughter Of The Innocents And We’re Not Innocent

The pastoral text of Fr Reuter is this: Herod sent soldiers, and they slaughtered all the baby boys in Bethlehem. But God was waiting for each one of them, in heaven. When evil seems to triumph over you, smile. God is waiting for you, in heaven. Apt image from AlabamAnglican who captions it ‘The Slaughter Of The Innocents’ (flickr.com/). The slaughter of the innocents was the product of megalomania, an obsession that none of us may not be guilty of at one time or another. Childermas is observed by mass or festival to commemorate those children slain on 28 December. It is also called Massacre of the Innocents, and Murder of the Innocents. I like the photograph: the light gathers on the soldier and mother tortured before or after her child’s death; the rest is darker, intimating greater sadness. The image is that off the Temple of the Sagrada Familia, Nativity Façade: Hope Doorway: Slaughter of the Innocents in Barcelona, Spain (artchive.com/) The slaughter of the innocents is not only biblical; it is historical, and in fact it is history being written now, I’m sorry, to say. but it’s done with the authority of James Bond, you know, the one with a license to kill, 007: It’s called the woman’s right to her body; it’s called abortion.